The goute lette hire nothyng for to daunce.
– Geoffrey Chaucer
The Canterbury Tales, The Nun’s Priest’s Tale. One advantage to being poor is that you don’t suffer the aristocratic disease of gout. So the gout doesn’t keep the widow from dancing, we are told. Chaucer is making an ironic comment here on those who lead very different lives. It’s unlikely that the hard-working, elderly widow spends any time dancing.